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Radiation oncology is a highly multidisciplinary medical specialty, drawing significantly from three scientific disciplines—medicine, physics, and biology. As a result, discussion of controversies or changes in practice within radiation oncology involves input from all three disciplines. For this reason, significant effort has been expended recently to foster collaborative multidisciplinary research in radiation oncology, with substantial demonstrated benefit.1,2 In light of these results, we have adopted this “team-science” approach to the traditional debates featured in this journal. This article is part of a series of special debates entitled “three discipline collaborative radiation therapy (3DCRT)”, in which each debate team has included three multidisciplinary team members, with the hope that this format would be